Erin Pearson reports on a case of insider-wrongdoing/snooping that is sure to have a lot of Australian patients worried whether they were filmed or not: Fresh charges have been laid against a suspended doctor accused of hiding a secret recording device in the staff toilet of a Melbourne hospital. Police re-arrested Ryan Cho at a…
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Air Force Employee Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Unlawfully Disclose Classified National Defense Information
A civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force assigned to the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) at Offutt Air Force Base pleaded guilty today to conspiring to transmit classified information relating to the national defense (National Defense Information) on a foreign online dating platform beginning in or around February 2022 until in or around April 2022. “The…
Brazil’s central bank service provider hacked, $140M stolen
Do you need yet another reminder of the insider threat? Today’s example is from Brazil and involves an employee of a bank’s software vendor. CoinTelegraph reports: C&M Software, the service provider that connects Brazil’s Central Bank to local banks and other financial institutions, was hacked on Wednesday, leading to 800 million Brazilian reais ($140 million),…
50 Customers of French Bank Hit by Insider SIM Swap Scam
Eric Priezkalns reports: A business student who was interning at Société Générale, a leading multinational bank headquartered in France, is believed to have fed information to SIM swappers who stole from 50 customers of the bank, reports Le Parisien. The intern’s arrest prompted officers from France’s fraud police (La Brigade des Fraudes aux Moyens de Paiement,…
Disgruntled IT Worker Jailed for Cyber Attack, Huddersfield
The West Yorkshire Police provide today’s reminder of the insider threat and the need to terminate access and credentials before you terminate an employee’s employment: A disgruntled IT worker who launched a cyber attack on his employer after he was suspended from work has been jailed. Mohammed Umar Taj began to take revenge on his…
Battlefords Union Hospitals notifies patients of employee snooping in their records
Today’s reminder of the insider threat comes to us from Battlefords Union Hospitals in Canada. Battlefords Now reports that between October 1, 2024 and April 4, 2025, an operating room scheduler accessed the MedAccess EHR system to look at personal and primary care medical information for hundreds of patients without a legitimate purpose. That same…